Page 24. MAINE COASTAL NEWS November 2014
HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Bangor Daily Commercial - Early 1900s * * * * *
Comd’r Peary has Sailed for Sydney Chateau Bay, Labrador, November 16.
– The Arctic steamer ROOSEVELT, with the Peary Arctic steamer ROOSEVELT, with the Peary Arctic expedition on board, which was delayed here, by fog and head winds, sailed Friday for Sydney. * * * * *
Sch. LUGANO Wrecked; Three Sailors Drowned
The long arm of Point Judith, R. I., caught the little Portland schooner LUGANO, bound to New York with a cargo of laths from Gardiner, Maine, as she as being driven before a northeast gale Thursday afternoon and on one of the ragged crags 300 yards off shore she was smashed to pieces by the heavy seas. Two members of the crew, including Capt. Edmund Barker, reached ashore on some of the wreckage, the remainder including the mate and two seamen, were drown in the surf. The dead men are: Mate Joseph Smith of Halifax, N. S.; Seaman John Johnson of Norway; Cook Joseph Lewis of Rockport, Maine. The Point Judith life savers managed to get a line across the vessel from their beach gun, but the tackle became snarled and before it could be straightened out the vessel went to pieces.
All that remained for the life savers then was to wade into the surf and haul the seamen ashore, which they did at the risk of their lives. Mate Smith and Johnson and Lewis were drowned within a few yards of the beach.
The LUGANO, which was nearly 40 years old, left Gardiner last week. The LUGANO was built at East Machias, Maine, in 1867, and was 104 feet long, 28 feet beam and had a draft of nine. She was a well-known boat in the coastwise trade and had engaged for the past ten or 15 years in carrying lumber from Maine ports. It is understood that she was insured. * * * * *
Drowned in Three Inches of Water Cranston, Rhode Island, November 16 – Drowned in three inches of water in her own kitchen, the body of Miss Agnes D. Perry, 55 years old, was found at her home in the village of Edgewood, Thursday night. For three days the body had lain where it was found, and meanwhile the water from the kitchen faucet had been running steadily, fl ooding the kitchen, fi lling the cellar to the street level, and fi nally overfl owing into the yard in the rear. This overfl ow resulted in the discovery of the body.
Monday morning three boys saw water running out from beneath the back door but gave no heed to it. In the afternoon the same lads saw the water was still running and told a policeman, who forced a window, and one of the boys on being lifted in, found the woman’s body lying face downward. It is believed she was at work at the sink
Monday, and was stricken with vertigo, and fell, after opening the faucet, and as the water continued to run she was drowned as she lay unconscious.
Miss Perry was one of the last of
an old family, who had lived alone for a considerable period.
17 November 1906 Wrecked on Wood Island.
Sch. MARSHALL PERRIN Completely Destroyed – Captain and Cook Drowned.
The captain and cook of the two-masted schooner MARSHALL PERRIN of Deer Island, Maine, were drowned, the third member of the crew saved himself and the schooner escaped total wreck in the gale and sleet storm Thursday night off Wood Island
light, according to information received at Biddeford, Friday afternoon. The dead, Herbert P. Bray, Deer Island,
captain; Wm. Jarvin, Deer Island, cook. Saved, John Burke, New Bedford, Massachusetts, mate.
Mate Burke said the experience was the most terrifying that he had undergone in his whole sea-faring career. The schooner attempted to ride out the gale under the lee of Richmond’s Island, but her anchor cable parted in the heavy sea which was then running in Saco bay, and the vessel was blown eight miles across the angry waters of the bay to Wood island, where she struck. Powerless to guide the course of their craft in the grasp of the gale and the tossing seas, the captain, mate and cook crouched on the bowsprit ready to jump for safety as soon as the vessel struck. Mate Burke says they all jumped when they felt the keel of the schooner bump on a ledge on the southeasterly side of Wood island, but he alone escaped. He thinks the captain and cook were stunned by contact with the rocks when they jumped.
The mate found himself after a moment of unconsciousness, immediately following his plunge from the bowsprit of the vessel, clinging to some seaweed, and he managed to crawl to a place of safety beyond the water line though hug waves several times threatened to break his hold on the rocks and sweep him seaward. As soon as he got to his feet he saw the beam of Wood island light, and running to the lighthouse, told Keeper Burke of the disaster. The latter returned with him at once to the scene of the wreck, but so great was the violence of the seas that within ten minutes the vessel was completely broken and only a few spars and loosened timbers washing in the surf remained visible.
The lighthouse keeper hoisted a signal to the crew of the Fletcher’s Neck life saving station at Biddeford Pool, but in the thick weather the signal was not observed until daybreak. Then the life saving crew went to the island, but could do nothing except to arrange for the mate’s comfort, and to set a watch for the bodies of the captain and cook along the shore of the island. The body of the cook had not been found at sunset. That of Capt. Bray, which came ashore late in the afternoon was found to be badly bruised from contact with the jagged rocks which surround the island.
19 November 1906 Brief News of City
A Daily Record of the Minor Happenings About Town. Latest Local Items
Politics, Society, Church, Fraternity Personal and Home are all Included. Telephone subscribers have noticed a change in the manners of calling for compound numbers within the last week. It has been the custom when calling for instance, 149-14 to say, “149 ring one four.” It took some time for the subscribers to get onto this, but now it has been changed so that if you say, “149 ring one four” the girl at central will connect you and say 149 ring fourteen.” It will probably take as long for subscribers to get accustomed to the new way as it did to get onto the old. * * * * *
A crew from the city lighting department were engaged Monday in placing an electric light on Broad street in front of the W. P. Dickey store. It was recently authorized by the city government.
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Charles E. Hamlin of this city is engaged in an editorial capacity on the School News, a weekly magazine of New
York, and will occupy that position for the winter, having taken it for a friend who is ill and whose position he is occupying. * * * * *
The result of the Princeton-Yale game came as a gentle surprise to a good many Bangor people Saturday night for the reason that most everyone was expecting Princeton to win. Considerable money changed hands as a result of the contest. * * * * *
Friends of Charles F. Woodard, Esq., who is seriously ill with pneumonia, will be glad to learn that his condition was improved Monday afternoon. Mr. Woodard is still a very sick man, however. * * * * *
News of Shipping
The Schooner J. M. MORALES Hauled Off Ledge by Tug DELTA Several Cargoes In
Schooners Come Up to Load Lumber – October Chart Corrections of Interest to Mariners.
Late arrivals in port include the schooners JOHN HARLOW, New York, with phosphate to Henry McLaughlin; DELIA CARLETON, New York, also with phosphate to Henry McLaughlin; ALMA, Jersey City, cement for R. B. Dunning; MARY CURTIS, New York, coal to Eastern Steamship Co.; GEORGE NEVENGER, New York, coal to F. H. Noble; C. TAYLOR, 3d, Camden, light; CHARLIE AND WILLIE, Rockland, light; L. D. REMICK, Boston; barge, MAPLE HILL, coal to Bacon & Robinson.
The clearances included the barge
MONITOR for Philadelphia; schooners GEORGE GOODMAN, New York, for the Ashland Mfg. Co.; SUSAN STETSON, Boston, for James Walker & Co. With colors fl ying from rail to truck, her white sides gleaming in the sun and making as beautiful a marine picture as can be imagined, the handsome new auxiliary schooner NORTHLAND arrived in port at Stockton at 1:35 Sunday afternoon, on her maiden trip from Rockland, where she was built.
She came in under her own power, there being no wind and although her engines were not used to their full capacity came the most of the way from Rockland, under power, easily logging seven miles an hour. The most of the inhabitants of Cape Jellison were on the pier and received the new craft with loud cheering. Pres. F. W. Cram, of the B. & A., and a party of friends were on the dock. Garrett Schenck and several other offi cials of the Great Northern Paper Co. were on board the NORTHLAND and left in Pres. Cram’s special for Millinocket.
The new vessel will load paper at once, 43 carloads being already in the Cape Jellison yard.
It was reported Saturday that the schooner J. M. MORALES, which went ashore in Bagaduce river Thursday, loaded with staves from Brooksville to Rondout, NY, had been fl oated by the tug DELTA of the Knickerbocker Steam Towage Co. and taken to a point near Castine where she was beached.
The MORALES is thought to be badly stove, but she will be examined and if possible be taken to Belfast where she will be repaired.
27 November 1906
The JENNIE G. PILLSBURY ON A ROCK NEAR ROCKLAND Rockland, November 27.
The two masted schooner JENNIE G. PILLSBURY of Rockland, bound light from
Boston to this port, mistayed and struck and struck on Heart’s rock, off Sprague’s head and near Two Bush island, Tuesday. She fi lled with water but there is a possibility of fl oating her. The crew reached shore safely. The schooner, which was valued at $5,000 and partly insured, is owned by Wm. W. Case and Mrs. John R. Pillsbury of this city. Capt. Andrew J. Gray of Portland was in command. The schooner is of 154 gross tonnage, 83.9 feet long and was built here in 1882.
24 November 1906 Schooners in Collision
The Three-Master L. A. PLUMMER Loaded with Potatoes from Stockton Springs Badly Damaged.
Chatham, Massachusetts, November
24. – The three-masted New Bedford schooner L. A. PLUMMER, bound from Stockton Springs, Maine, for New York, with a cargo of potatoes was in collision with an unknown tern schooner near Pollock Riplight early Saturday and was badly damaged, Capt. Prek, of the PLUMMER seated that the night was clear but the moon had set. Just after he has passed the lightship a vessel loomed up ahead and before there was time to change his course the unknown schooner had crashed into the portside of the PLUMMER making a large hole in her hull above the water and cutting into the rigging. The (?) and spanker sails of the PLUMMER were torn to shreds, her davits carried away and she was otherwise damaged. The headgear of the other vessel was carried away but it is not known whether she sustained other damage. She was taken in tow shortly after the collision by a passing tug and proceeded west. The PLUMMER anchored off the harbor and the Chatham life saving crew answered her signals. It was arranged to have a tug sent here to tow her to New York. The unknown vessel was lumber laden. The PLUMMER is a vessel of 336 tons net.
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Speedy Little Yachts to Race at Winter Harbor
Those who have seen the 21-footer designed and one built by Burgess & Packard for the one-design class, to go to Winter Harbor, Maine, which was tried out a week ago Saturday at Marblehead, have pronounced the boat a fi ne little craft for short cruising or racing. The boat has a look of the ORESTES about her in the bow, but in other respects resembles somewhat the old 21-foot restricted class. She has a nice cabin, with good head room, and there are two transcoms, one on each side of the cabin. These boats are to be used more for afternoon sailing than for cruising, and so there is no attempt at making them ready for living on board, but they can be easily converted into cruisers. They are very heavily built, and are most substantial craft, and are designed and built especially for the tough water conditions at Winter Harbor. The summer residents at this Maine resort have enjoyed boating in a mild way for some reasons, but fi nally decided to have a little sport in the line of racing as well as afternoon sailing, and so seven of them ordered boats from Messrs. Burgess & Packard. One of them has been completed and tried out and the second one is practically complete. A third is planked and the deck is being put on, while the fourth has just been started. The boats will be towed to Winter Harbor and delivered on June 25. The dimensions of the boats are as follows: Length overall, 31 feet; waterline, 21 feet; beam, 7 feet 3 inches; draught, 5 feet. They have 3000 pounds of outside ballast. As the water is very rough about Winter
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